Tenants requested the building's file from City and County agencies under FOIA. Below, in plain language, is what each agency's records returned. Everything is descriptive and sourced; pull the same records yourself to verify.
The building is billed for water and sewer on a single City account (water is not separately metered by unit). The account of record — 1322836-508763, in the name of The Fulton Building, LLC — carried a past-due balance of $16,708.34. Unpaid utility balances can become a lien on the property.
Finance FOIA F147082
The County's payment records show the building's property taxes (2022, 2023, 2024, and the 2025 first installment) were paid — late and piecemeal, by First Bank of Highland Park through a tax agent, rather than by the owner. The amounts appear on the taxes page.
Cook County Treasurer FOIA · PIN 16-12-408-008-0000
CFD records document the response to a carbon-monoxide alarm at the building on September 3, 2026, the evacuation, and the building-wide gas shut-off that followed.
CFD response records · Sept 3, 2026
DOAH records include administrative judgments against entities associated with the owner, including City of Chicago v. Lawndale Commons LLC & Michael Federow (2023 1650468), a judgment of $10,114.77. See the case tracker.
DOAH · 2023 1650468
The City's Building Violations database is public without a FOIA request: 90 violations on record for the property, 64 open — roof, exterior wall, stairway, electrical, fire-safety, plumbing, and change-of-use items. Detailed on the violations page.
data.cityofchicago.org · search “2701 W Fulton”
Requests to the Law Department and to Business Affairs & Consumer Protection are part of the same records effort; plain-language summaries of those responses will be added here as they are finalized.
Nothing on this page characterizes anyone's conduct. It reports what agency records state, with the source for each item.